Kazakhstan’s parliament adopted on Thursday 19 November a controversial privacy bill which critics say will place even greater constraints on journalists’ ability to carry out investigative journalism. The bill gives authorities the power to shut down publications and jail journalists for alleged violation of privacy. The bill, which needs only President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s signature before […]

As many as 12 journalists have been confirmed dead in a massacre of more than 21 people in the Philippines, the country’s National Union of Journalists reported on Monday. The journalists were part of a convoy traveling to file candidacy papers for gubernatorial candidate and local mayor Esmael Mangudadatu in the southern province of Maguindanao, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday completed a four-day press freedom advocacy mission to Venezuela, during which it held discussions with leading editors and journalists from a broad range of media, as well as representatives of journalists’ associations, civil society and academia. IPI conducted the mission to make an objective assessment of the current […]

Two days after a Zambian court threw out the obscenity charges brought against the Post News Editor Chansa Kabwela, Lusaka Magistrate David Simusamba has ruled that the newspaper’s owner and editor, Fred M’membe, must nonetheless defend himself against “contempt” charges for an op-ed published in his paper about the Kabwela case. M’membe’s trial is now set for […]